Awards & Commendations

 

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed

Caldecott Honor Award
Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year
Nick Jr. a Best Book of the Year

Best Best Friends

ALA Notable Books List 2007
2006 Booklist Editors’ Choice
2006 Nick Jr. “Best Book About Best Friends”

Light Up The Night

Colorado Book Award

To Be Like The Sun

Nancy Pearl’s picks

BUZZ

School Library Journal Best Children’s Book[s] of 2000
CCBC Choice
LA Times Best children’s Book(s) of 2000
ABA’s Pick of the Lists
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award

Hello, Arctic!

Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award

Apple Pie 4th of July

APALA Illustration Award
Texas 2 X 2 Reading List
IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Recommended Book

 

Reviews

Where Lily Isn’t

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Boom Boom

School Library Journal

“This large, brightly colored picture book with very few words revolves around a class of preschoolers experiencing the four seasons. . . . A solid choice for the very young.” – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Boom-Boom/Sarvinder-Naberhaus/9781442434134#sthash.3hmSsiSc.dpuf

Kirkus Reviews

“This exploration of seasons featuring a multicultural group of preschoolers is sure to please its target audience…very young children will benefit from the repetition and enjoy the range of perspectives and emotions provided by the artist who created Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (2003). Familiar seasonal fun for the young.”

Horn Book

“Authentically childlike emotion and characterization is portrayed through the mixed-media art…Hear, hear! to this playful romp of a book.”

Publishers Weekly

“What from the title and cover appears to be a celebration of the noisy excitement of a thunderstorm turns out to have a broader aim as readers follow a classroom of preschoolers through four seasons’ worth of explorations…Understated yet evocative.”

Dinosaur Thunder

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

7 Imp

Booklist

Light Up The Night

Kirkus (starred review)

Publishers Weekly

Booklist

Ella Sarah Gets Dressed

Booklist (starred review)

Best Best Friends

Booklist (starred review)

Only You

Kirkus (starred review)

To Be Like The Sun

Kirkus (starred review)

BUZZ

Publisher’s Weekly
School Library Journal (Starred review)
Horn Book (Starred review)